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“Unfortunately we will not be able to pass repeal legislation until there are 60 amenable senators to avoid a filibuster and a Republican president to sign it,” the groups wrote. “By the time such a majority is secured, Obamacare will be well on its way to becoming another entrenched, immortal entitlement program.”

“Therefore, a more immediate and comprehensive strategy is in order to ensure this train wreck of a law doesn’t leave the station,” they said. “Specifically, we are calling for the Republican Party to include defunding Obamacare as the part of your contract with citizens this fall.”

DeFundIt.org officials plan to lobby for their proposal with aides to Boehner and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Tuesday. Republican leaders have said their contract will include specific policy ideas they would implement if they gain control of Congress this fall.

Tea parties, however, are concerned that Republicans might get too complacent and drift away from conservative principles. For instance, at the conference of the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington on Saturday, Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin said that members need to keep Republicans accountable if they regain control of the House or Senate or both.

Readers' Comments (38)

This is how crazy some Americans are right now... we're building hospitals and roads for Afghanistan and Iraq with American taxpayer dollars and that's O.K., but somehow our own brothers and sisters right here in America should do without basic healthcare and food and housing. Isn't that the very definition of unpatriotic?

The American people voted "in" Democratic rule because of the failure of Republican politicians to do what they said they would do. The Democrats are in a similar position now, which is why I advocate for independent or Libertarian candidates. We need to pull together as Americans instead of being pulled apart by politicians. Every election year we hear the same stuff, one side blaming the other, and every time it's the same result, the mega-rich get richer while the middle class continues to shrink, and the poor get poorer. Guys like Boehner and McConnell don't mind government health care when it's for them and their families do they? They don't seem to mind the fact that their own jobs were created by the government and paid for by the American taxpayer, they come back every year. The Republican politicians shut themselves out by refusing to vote for their own bills!

The solution here is such an easy one: all teabaggers should opt OUT of collecting any Social Security, using Medicare, or using those Socialist VA benefits. We'll save a bundle! The teabaggers are all about 'values' until they're expected to ACT on them.

The solution here is such an easy one: all teabaggers should opt OUT of collecting any Social Security, using Medicare, or using those Socialist VA benefits. We'll save a bundle! The teabaggers are all about 'values' until they're expected to ACT on them.

This is how crazy some Americans are right now... we're building hospitals and roads for Afghanistan and Iraq with American taxpayer dollars and that's O.K., but somehow our own brothers and sisters right here in America should do without basic healthcare and food and housing. Isn't that the very definition of unpatriotic?

You know as well as anyone that everyone can get healthcare if they need it by just going to the hospital emergency room.

By law already on the books, NO ONE can be refused healthcare, including illegal immigrants, so why need this healthcare bill?

It's called control. You control a person's healthcare, food, and housing, you can control the person.

so MARK 77 who pays exactly for the wonderful care you receive in the emergency room? Answer - everybody

It amazes me that the insurance companies who have been screwing everyone over for decades finally are made to be accountable in the weak tea legislation that passed last year now are spending millions on lobbying so they can return to the status quo of denying pre existing conditions and putting caps on payment limits and you sheep ARE LAPPING IT UP

I notice that all they are talking about these days is "defund it: what happened to repeal and replace? As i suspected the Reps have never been serious about controlling health care costs

Your death panels exist and are operated by insurance panels and you want to go back to that? are you crazy?

We rank towards the bottom of all industialised counties in the quality of our health care - why would you not want to improve it?

Got to give the Reps their due though - they now have a large portion of their supporters actively looking to vote against their own self interest in support of padding the insurance companies profits at the expense of their own Health - wow

You got it almost right. It is MY basic healthcare and food and housing I want them to do without.

Am I going too fast for you?

Are you keeping up at all?

Is it moral to give a man a fish, if you have to steal the fish first?

In fact I think we should deny tax funding to emergency care as well.

If you need life saving treatment and can't afford it, then you should be left to die in the hospital parking lot. Spending my taxes to help another because they're too lazy or under educated to afford the PRIVILEGE of health care is SOCIALISM.

so MARK 77 who pays exactly for the wonderful care you receive in the emergency room? Answer - everybody

It amazes me that the insurance companies who have been screwing everyone over for decades finally are made to be accountable in the weak tea legislation that passed last year now are spending millions on lobbying so they can return to the status quo of denying pre existing conditions and putting caps on payment limits and you sheep ARE LAPPING IT UP

I notice that all they are talking about these days is "defund it: what happened to repeal and replace? As i suspected the Reps have never been serious about controlling health care costs

Your death panels exist and are operated by insurance panels and you want to go back to that? are you crazy?

We rank towards the bottom of all industialised counties in the quality of our health care - why would you not want to improve it?

Got to give the Reps their due though - they now have a large portion of their supporters actively looking to vote against their own self interest in support of padding the insurance companies profits at the expense of their own Health - wow

I think you fail to understand us Repubilcans.

It's government death panels we're against.

We want free market death panels based on one's ability to afford the privledge of health care.

If one needs their life saved and can't afford treatment they should have the freedom to die instead of the tyrrany of my taxes being wasted to save your life, or the life of your child for that matter.

One can only hope the GOP heeds the Tea Party's advice and takes this approach. Blocking the President's budget with this kind of tactic will surely result in a gov't shutdown, which worked really well the last time the GOP tried it. So all the seats they pick up in November they'll lose in 2012, with the added bonus that Obama gets a 2nd term. Go for it.

No matter what happens in November, I very much look forward to seeing the anguished corpulent faces of the tea party whackjobs when they are sold down the river by all the politicians they support this fall in, oh, about 10 minutes after the opening session of the 112th Congress.

This sounds like a very good idea indeed to defund this governmental intrusion into the lives of the American People to run their lives and hold their lives over their heads for whatever reason they might want to do so as well as coarse to raise more money for someone . So yes Republicans and even Democrats who put it there , Defund it now ! Sincerely ;

This sounds like a very good idea indeed to defund this governmental intrusion into the lives of the American People to run their lives and hold their lives over their heads for whatever reason they might want to do so as well as coarse to raise more money for someone . So yes Republicans and even Democrats who put it there , Defund it now ! Sincerely ;

I agree with you. Health care should be judged by how profitable it is in our free market system, not the health care itself. The health care CEO's will make less money if they're forced to accept people with pre existing conditions and not drop people from their coverage if they get sick. That's big government tyrrany.

And I'm sure you agree with me that people should have the freedom to die in the hospital parking lot if they can't afford life saving coverage. If you don't agree, tell me why. If you agree, then you don't need to respond.

The right's commitment, and the Tea Party's commitment to rescinding health insurance reform (it's not about health CARE folks, it's about health INSURANCE) is hilarious. Yes, let's definitely bring back rescission, and other abusive practices heh heh. Oh, and those outrageous health insurance company exec bonuses must be maintained at all costs. Here's the news: It's coming out of YOUR paychecks, folks.

The health insurance companies are owning you, people, with year-after-year increases that outstrip inflation by miles, and you are helping them? You've been had. Take a look at who's paying for your protest bus trips.

I'd be all for free market health insurance if the market was as competitive as it is say, for auto insurance. But unfortunately that's not the case. So they have to be tightly regulated, or they will continue to take an ever bigger chunk of your pay, and you know that's true.